Action Lab Entertainment has announced it has to censor covers for the upcoming Athena Voltaire…
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This week on the Major Spoielrs Podcast: Nazis are good for Superheroes, Archie cancels its…
With the upcoming X-Men: First Class movie featuring a young Magneto, I decided it was…
A trope is a recognizable theme used in storytelling. The kidnapped princess, the final battle, the training montage, these are all tropes we have seen again and again. Usually recognition of a familiar trope is a good thing, it lets the audience know how they should feel about things and sets them up either for a satisfying conclusion or an excited twist. But what happens when a trope goes stale? When you can’t watch two hours of TV without seeing the same situation over and over, like the wriiers just emptied their cliche bladders all over the place? Some themes have suffered this fate, through excessive use now they accomplish the opposite of what the writers want, to take the viewer out of the experience. What follows is a list of tropes that I find tiresome, troubling and most of all trite.
X-Men: Magneto Testament hardcover is on sale now, and features extra content including end notes…
In issue #71 of the Major Spoilers Podcast, we ran down our Goats and Gods…
I love Indiana Jones. Love the first three movies, the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on…
Good news for those of you that came late to the Atomic Robo party -…